aszlig writes: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:08:41PM +1000, Tim Barbour wrote: > > The most serious problem is that NILFS2 needs to update /etc/mtab when > > mounting a filesystem, so that it can store information about the > > [...] > I don't have any experience with NILFS2 yet, but you might want to take > a look at how it is handled when using NFS in fileSystems:
I think your point is that NFS also needs to keep track of some state when filesystems are mounted and unmounted. > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/nfs.nix I had a look at that file, but I could not see where it is handling the state. > Nice :-) Have you considered submitting your patch for 0.41 upstream? If > it doesn't get upstreamed too soon, I could include it as well while > cleaning up the mess^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdating > blivet/nixpart. That would be great. > But as mentioned in the other mail, I'm working on nixpart 1.0 already, > which should get rid of the monkey patching with 0.17. > > > I attach a tarball with patches for Blivet (note that the 0.41 patch is > > untested). > > Yah, probably would make sense to test against 0.41, because I think we > shouldn't aim for old versions, especially in terms of nixpart. Are you able to build a current Blivet to test with ? I just checked, and it looks as if Blivet is up to about 0.65 now: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-blivet Tim --- GPG public key available at: http://phasechangeit.com/~trb/gpg-key or http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev